Charlie Brown encyclopedia set

A Charlie Brown encyclopedia set is a set of educational books featuring cartoon characters from the popular Charles Schulz comic strip Peanuts.

About the books

There were a number of educational ‘encyclopaedia’ style sets of Peanuts books published.

The Charlie Brown Dictionary

The first set of books was entitled ‘The Charlie Brown Dictionary’, and was published by First Print World Publishing in 1973. It consisted of eight volumes, featuring 2,500 word definitions and 600 pictures. The volumes were:

Volume 1: A to B

Volume 2: C to E

Volume 3: F to H

Volume 4: I to Mo

Volume 5: Mo to P

Volume 6: Q to St

Volume 7: St to Tu

Volume 8: Tu to Z

Charlie Brown’s Super Book of Questions and Answers

The next set of books to appear on the market was ‘Charlie Brown’s Super Book of Questions and Answers’, published by Random House Childrens Books in five volumes from 1976 to 1981. These volumes were:

Volume 1: About All Kinds of Animals - from Snails to Humans!

Volume 2: About the Earth and Space - from Plants to Planets!

Volume 3: About Planes, Cars and Trains and Other Things That Move!

Volume 4: About All Kinds of People and How They Live!

Volume 5: About All Kinds of Things and How They Work!

Charlie Brown's 'Cyclopedia’

The main set was ‘Charlie Brown's 'Cyclopedia’, published in 15 volumes by Funk & Wagnalls, Inc in 1980. A great deal of the material featured in these books was originally taken from the first set of Random House books. The titles of each volume are as follows:

Volume 1 – Your Body

Volume 2 – All kinds of Animals from Fish to Frogs

Volume 3 – All kinds of Animals from Dinosaurs to Elephants

Volume 4 – Cars and Trains and Other Things that Move

Volume 5 – Boats and Other Things that Float

Volume 6 – Planes and Other Things that Fly

Volume 7 – Space Travel

Volume 8 – Stars and Planets

Volume 9 – The Earth, Weather and Climate

Volume 10 – People Around the World

Volume 11 – What We Wear

Volume 12 – Holidays

Volume 13 – Machines and How They Work

Volume 14 – Sound, Light and Air

Volume 15 – Electricity and Magnetism

In 1990 Funk and Wagnalls published a new set of the books, with slightly different information and titles. The volumes were: